The Muscovite’s work is arriving in English this year in three books of remarkable memoir, poems and essays that, she explains, reach for ‘the truth of the past’ Years ago, Maria Stepanova visited the ...

This week, guest host Marc Filippino discusses the FT's war coverage in Ukraine with our Editor, Roula Khalaf. How does a news organisation make decisions during wartime? Then Marc talks with Maria ...

A compendious family scrapbook that tells the story of a turbulent century of Russian life Russian poet Maria Stepanova, born in 1972, came of age amid all the upheaval of the post-Soviet 90s, and the ...

Maria Stepanova played for the Phoenix Mercury in their early years, as they drafted her in the 1998 WNBA Draft. She was the eighth pick of that year's draft, and the Mercury drafted three other ...

It’s a rare thing that a Russian book is shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. So what’s so special about this novel? There were only two times before that a Russian writer was nominated for ...

Among the most acclaimed contemporary Russian-language writers, Maria Stepanova has won the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding — but not without controversy. Maria Stepanova, a powerful ...

To fashion a work of art from the material of war is to risk exploiting, or even ennobling, the horrors that are depicted; but to say nothing about those horrors can seem like defeatism—or worse, ...